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Who makes the rules? CMS and IPPS
- Aaron Hamilton, MD, MBA, SFHM;
- Jennifer Cowart, MD, FHM;
- John Biebelhausen, MD, MBA
October 12, 2019
The IPPS final rule excluded the proposed broad changes to the MS-DRG system that were in the proposed rule.
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Considering the value of productivity bonuses
- Suzanne Bopp
October 9, 2019
Does this common model drive high-value care?
Opinion
Observation versus inpatient status
- Isha Puri, MD, MPH
September 17, 2019
Observation care is increasing, and can frustrate patients and hospitalists.
News
Productivity-based salary structure not associated with value-based culture
- Bryan Huang, MD, FHM
August 30, 2019
What hospitalist reimbursement models are associated with value-based care culture?
News
FDA’s low-risk TAVR okay set to propel case volume
- Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD
August 27, 2019
The FDA’s approval of TAVR for low-risk patients should boost both case numbers and U.S. TAVR sites.
Opinion
Am I still a hospitalist?
- Chad T. Whelan, MD, MHSA, SFHM
August 20, 2019
Hospital medicine and health care delivery systems should drive change in a coordinated, collaborative partnership.
News
CDC finds that too little naloxone is dispensed
- Erik Greb
August 6, 2019
Despite increases in the number of naloxone prescriptions dispensed, many patients at risk for overdose are not offered the potentially life-saving treatment, according to an analysis of national retail pharmacy data.
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Critics say hospital price transparency proposal ‘misses the mark’
- Gregory Twachtman
July 31, 2019
The proposal from CMS would require hospitals to make public both their list prices and the prices they negotiate with payers.
News
CMS plans to give MIPS an overhaul
- Gregory Twachtman
July 31, 2019
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the changes are designed to make measures more relevant and reporting less burdensome. The changes received a good early review from the American Medical Association.
News
As patients, physicians fare nearly the same as everyone else
- Will Pass
July 27, 2019
Physicians do only slightly better than nonphysicians in adhering to guidelines, “but not by much and not always.”